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There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.

You'd be surprised the type of people who are into metal when you see them. Sometimes I'm even surprised, but it's cool. That's the reason it's still around.

Metal has its own code of cool, but it's not really trying to be cool. And that was very refreshing to me, that metal is very much about expressing something that seems awesome to you even if, at the time, much of the world was going to mock and reject it.

I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.

Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate.

I am a closet metal fan.

Metal never goes away. It drifts in and out, but the true fans are always there for it.

I loathe and detest heavy metal.

Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but we're a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody.